Snapped in a grimy warehouse - that has to be real, right?

Recent information released by ComScore has revealed some promising information for Google's Android platform, apparently in the three months which ended in January 2010 Google's smartphone market share grew pretty significantly.

Recent studies show that RIM is still in the lead when it comes to the amount of handsets they sell, but Apple are waiting in the wings for the BlackBerry maker to slip up. However, Apple are not sitting pretty either and thoughts of an iPhone 4G is not worrying Google Android in the slightest.

Ovum's latest Smartphone capability tracker: 1Q09-4Q09 demonstrates that smartphone manufacturers are embracing more powerful hardware capable of handling advanced graphics and video processing, However, Nokia appears to be lagging behind the performance curve.

These are the first photos of Microsoft's Project Pink phones, snatched from deep within the bowels of the Microsoft/Verizon industrio-complex —not the Turtle, but the larger, Sidekick-like Pure. This doesn't look like Windows Phone 7, so what is it?

By now you've probably read about the latest patent tiff between Apple and HTC, but what about the implications of such a suit? According to an intellectual property expert, one of the potential outcomes of this case is that the courts could rule that existing handsets must be remotely downgraded to remove the disputed functionality.

Microsoft confirmed to APCmag.com yesterday that users of popular devices such as the HTC HD2 handset won't upgrade to the company's latest operating system for the mobile network.

There's encouraging news for Google in the Android vs. iPhone war. A company that's delivered more than one billion applications, games, ringtones, videos, and wallpapers to mobile users claims Android has topped the iPhone in terms of user concentration in eight states.

It should be said, the "top ten worst" lists are a lot more fun to write than the "top ten best" lists. Fawning over successful devices over and over gets a bit repetitive, and after a while you feel more like a salesman than a journalist. Scepticism and schadenfreude is much more fun.

Video calling has been available on competitive devices for a long time now, I have owned multiple of handset's which offer this functionality, however I have only used it once or twice.

Google Android's flood of options should be a good thing -- but it's really a self-destruction derby in action.

The urge to have sex is something that many find difficult to control. Some, indeed, find this urge gets them into trouble. It can affect your marriage, your work, even your golf swing. However, now that technology is making so many things easier, the power of mobile social networking is being brought to, um, bare by the makers of a new iPhone app.

Eric Schmidt has claimed that Google does not want to turn the world's wireless carriers into "dumb data pipes.

Alongside the Toshiba TG02, Toshiba also announced the K01 today, a slider-QWERTY form factor smartphone. The device features the company's first a 4.1-inch organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, a 1GHz processor, and up to 32GB of storage using a microSDHC card.

Executives from Sony Ericsson, the struggling European handset maker working hard to make a turnaround in 2010, said most of its new phones introduced this coming year will sport the Google Android operating system.

The Snoring U app uses the iPhone's microphone to monitor snoring. When Snoring U detects at least four snores, based on a change in the sound level in the room, the app vibrates or plays a sound clip to tell you to turn over which will stop the snores.

Have you wondered what the new iPhone 4G will look like? It seems that one designer has, and thought he would show you in the form of some concept art. Designer Guillherme Schasipen has posted some images online that can be seen here,

Motorola, it seems, has suffered an embarrassing bout of premature release. Monday afternoon, the company announced on its Facebook page that the Android 2.1 update would beginning hitting Droid handsets this week. The reaction was huge: nearly 800 "likes" and pages upon pages of excitement-filled comments. Now, however, the company says the announcement was made in error.

By 2014, researchers predict, mobile data traffic throughout the world will reach 3.6 exabytes per month, or an annual run rate of 40 exabytes. This is a 39-fold increase from 2009 to 2014, or a compound annual growth rate of 108 percent.

Mobile middleware developer Myriad has unveiled a turbo boosted version of the Dalvik virtual machine, which runs applications on the Android platform, boosting performance and battery life.